Glen Carlou Grand Classique Paarl Red Blend – 2006 – 8.7 – 2009 James Meléndez / Jaime Patricio Meléndez

This wine is a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Malbec and Cabernet Franc.   A very familiar South African signature of earth and game; this wine contains the following notes of baked black cherry, black pepper, bramble and nutmeg.

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St. Mary Bells & Whistles Limestone Coast Red Blend – 2005 – 8.4 – James Meléndez / Jaime Patricio Meléndez

This red blend is Cabernet Sauvignon 65&, Shiraz 20%, Cabernet Franc 11% and Merlot 4%.  This wine is superbly hot at 15% alcohol.   This wine heat obscures some of the blueberry notes; and plenty of chile Poblano and chile Passilla, some sweet spice on the finish.

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Nuevo Mundo Maipo Valley Cabernet Sauvignon Carmenère – 2006 – 8.8 – James Meléndez / Jaime Patricio Meléndez

This is an organic wine from the Maipo Valley.  This wine certainly highlights it’s birth place with a complex wine– a sturdy Cabernet Sauvignon 60% and the Chilean significant wine of Carmenère 40%.

The nose presents with freshly cut cedar and slight raisin.  The flavor gives notes of roasted blueberry, ground mace, Crimini mushroom.   The wine has superb tannins and balances evenly with acid and alcohol–a memorable wine.

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Callaghan Vineyard Sonoita Padres Red Blend – 2005 – 8.9 – James Meléndez / Jaime Patricio Meléndez

This is the first Arizona wine I have ever reviewed.  This wine has the following varietal components:  49% Tempranillo, 31% Petit Verdot, 19% Carbernet Sauvignon, and 11% Cabernet Franc.  This red blend gives a nice back structure and giving a nice complexity expressed with it many notes: violet, blackberry-blueberry, ground mace, plum orchard, sage and underbrush.  Makes me curious to want to try other wines from Arizona.

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Novella Paso Robles Cabernet Sauvignon – 2006 – 8.5 – James Meléndez / Jaime Patricio Meléndez

A light-medium bodied, slightly vitreous wine with high acid profile; the wine gives notes of cherry, cranberry, white pepper, and slight hint of baking spices.

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Owl Ridge Bridgen Vineyard Sonoma County – 2003 – 8.8 – James Meléndez / Jaime Patricio Meléndez

This wine presents with the following notes: fennel, Eucalyptus, crushed almond, and Boysenberry Coulis.

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Salvestrin Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon – 2004 – 8.9 – James Meléndez / Jaime Patricio Meléndez

This wine gives the following notes: scented hickory wood, game, chocolate and blackberry.

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Roberts and Rogers Howell Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon – 2004 – 9.1 – James Meléndez / Jaime Patricio Meléndez

A nice wrapped wine with balance, acid, sumptuous notes of blackberry confit, Fall orchard, ground clove and mace.

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Roberts and Rogers Howell Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon – 2005 – 8.9 – James Meléndez / Jaime Patricio Meléndez

The wine is complex but not as complex as the previous vintage—time will tell if this well develop as much as the 2004 vintage; winter spice, red berry fruit and cedar box notes.

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Faust Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon – 2005 – 8.8 – James Meléndez / Jaime Patricio Meléndez

This Cabernet Sauvignon has characteristics of baked red pear, winter spices, cinnamon and ground clove.

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